About

In short, Nancy and Kathleen are two librarians in the Chicagoland area who love graphic novels! They created this site for a school project and decided to keep it going.

Kathleen is a beginning librarian, working as an adult reference librarian in two different libraries. She majored in art in undergrad before going to grad school and in her spare time paints (traditionally and digitally), writes, reads, plays video games, and goes to concerts and binge-watches shows with her boyfriend.

Nancy is a married mother of three who is thrilled that she is paid to indulge her passions- combining her interests in Star Trek, Star Wars, YA novels and making crafts into a job she loves as Head of Teen Services at a small-town public library.

We’ve compiled our favorites and classics in the “Recommendations” page. The “Resources” page is filled with websites about graphic novel news, history, and more. Our blog posts contain reviews of graphic novels that we have read and love… or maybe not loved so much. Enjoy your stay!

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I was so hoping that the authors of this blog would be women. And I wasn’t disappointed. I’ve only read one graphic novel in my whole life (which I did review on my blog) and always mean to read more. You guys look like you could help me out with this.

I enjoy all genres of books (my Goodreads account is testament to that) but GN are a passion of mine! The artwork really enhances the comprehension of the story and a bonus is that GN’s can encourage a reluctant reader to pick up a book.

I was wondering if you guys wanted to do a guest blog on wordsandleaves.com? This isn’t a blogger prize thing, I just think doing something in concert with you would be cool! Id you’d like to chat a bit more, contact me through my website.

Nancy – I accidentally trashed your comment about Rick Grimes on my site. I meant to hit approve, but must have gotten distracted and hit trash! It was definitely accidental. Feel free to comment again if you’d like 🙂

Greetings Nancy, I was not sure where to post this comment so this section seemed the best choice. I want to thank you for checking out my post dedicated to the greenonionblog.com and the Lightsaber I designed for Green Onion himself. The like you left has brought me to your blog and I can tell I am going to be visiting regularly. I have created Lightsaber designs for various characters, including Marvel and D.C. heroes and villians and you would be most welcome to return and check those out (and correct my write-ups if I have made any mistakes!). Thank you once more and I will return soon to read more of your (and Kathleen’s) blog!

Hello Kathleen and Nancy, I have recently been honoured by being awarded a Liebster Award, and in turn I would like to nominate Graphic Novelty2 for the award also. I understand that you already have a Liebster displayed on your site but I wasn’t sure when you received that one. So if either one of you or both would like to take part then my acceptance post and the rules and questions etc can be found with this link:

Hey Nancy!
I was wondering if you would do a guest post for me?! Sometime in May… about your greatest love of course! Kathleen is welcome to participate if she wants as well. The librarian duo talking graphic novels!! I just started getting into them the last few months… I know manga pretty well… so to learn from the best would be welcome by all ❤ Let me know if you have time.